Re: Fix race condition in pg_get_publication_tables with concurrent DROP TABLE

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 11:51 AM Bertrand Drouvot
<bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 11:19:40AM +0530, shveta malik wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 1:01 AM Bharath Rupireddy
> > > <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > I tried to find if any other code-part does that, found one refernce
> > in hstore_svals():
> >
> > /* ugly ugly ugly. why no macro for this? */
> > (funcctx)->call_cntr++;
> >
> > Having said that, I could not find any other way to implement the fix
> > also.
>
> What about introducing a publication_tables_state struct stored in user_fctx
> that carries both the list and a private position index? (kind of what
> pg_timezone_abbrevs_zone() is doing).
>

Yeah, that is a good idea. Seems doable.

thanks
Shveta